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Do Unto Others

20/08/2020
By Dr Chris Porter
“In everything do to others as you would have them do to you” Matthew 7:12

The gift of patience

13/08/2020
By The Revd Dr Colleen O'Reilly
We learn patience through experience as we become adults. We learn that the seeds will push through the soil, the special day will come, and we will ‘be there’ - eventually.

On Gratitude

06/08/2020
By The Revd Canon Professor Dorothy Lee
Gratitude is one way to enhance our resilience and endurance in these difficult days. Psychologists tell us that our brains our wired for the negative—a survival instinct so that we are always prepared for the worst. But our brains also need to be re-trained so that they don’t fall into a pit of despair and hopelessness.

The Perils of Perseverance

30/07/2020
By The Revd Professor Mark Lindsay
Well-meaning rhetoric about ‘persevering’ isn’t that helpful right at the moment.

Hope

23/07/2020
By Dr Rachelle Gilmour
Hope, assurance of restoration, and belief in the God who can bring an end to all suffering, does not prevent Jesus weeping.

'Do unto others' (even in a pandemic)

16/07/2020
By The Revd Canon Dr Bob Derrenbacker
In the face of increasing turmoil, let's continue to follow the 'Golden Rule', and 'do unto others', even in a pandemic.

Curse or Gift

09/07/2020
By The Revd Dr Gary Heard
The yearning for returning to the past may keep us from discovering the new opportunities and perspectives which this time affords us.

Love and the End of the World

02/07/2020
By Scott Kirkland
Repetition ends with failure, and begins with hope. So perhaps love might even interrupt repetition, it might be the end of history. 

Trauma and 'the new normal'

25/06/2020
By Dr Chris Porter
One of the phrases that must be in contention for the phrase of the year contest is ‘the new normal.’

Breaking the chain

22/06/2020
By Dr Fergus King
The story in which Ishmael and Hagar are driven out into the wilderness by Sarah, with Abraham’s  complicity, has often been read as setting up the animosity which has persisted between different nations and faith across history.

The past is not fixed for nations and peoples

18/06/2020
By Dr Colleen O'Reilly
The impact of the past on the present is not fixed for nations and peoples, any more than it is for individuals.

Reflection on the Trinity

15/06/2020
By Dr Colleen O'Reilly
Over the weeks of lockdown through the coronavirus, we celebrated major festivals of the church’s year: in particular, the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus, along with his sending of the Spirit.

Breathe

11/06/2020
By Professor Mark Lindsay
Almost three months ago – when shops had just closed, borders had been shut, and we were beginning to hunker down into an indefinite period of home isolation – my wife, Sonia, chalked a single word on the wall of our house, just outside the front door.

Job's Friends

09/06/2020
By Dr Rachelle Gilmour
In the past week, a cry of protest against systemic violence and racism has erupted in our world.

Beyond Being 'Normal'

04/06/2020
By Dr Gary Heard
What’s 'normal'? We hear a lot about the 'new normal' which has emerged in this lockdown period and which will gradually emerge as we transition not only out of lockdown
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